‘No choice’: India’s Manipuris cannot go back a year after fleeing violence

[ad_1] Lingneifel Vaiphei collapsed to the ground in agony after she saw the lifeless body of her infant child laid out on a cold steel stretcher in a mortuary in Chennai, the capital of India’s southern Tamil Nadu state. Steven’s...

Holding Up the Sky: Saving the Indigenous Yanomami tribe in Brazil’s Amazon

[ad_1] A Brazilian tribal leader warns that illegal mining in forests will have dire consequences for the rest of the world.Davi Kopenawa is a tribal chief and spokesman for the cause of the Indigenous Yanomami people of the Brazilian Amazon....

Indigenous people in Philippines’s north ‘ready to fight’ as tensions rise

[ad_1] This is the second of two reports from the Philippines's northernmost province of Batanes. You can read the first – from Mavulis Island – here. Itbayat, Philippines – Eleuterio Malupa still remembers December 7, 1941. On the same day...

A Vision of Justice: Chile’s first blind senator

[ad_1] An Indigenous mother rises in Chilean politics when she is caught in the crossfire of a polarised nation.On her way to work, Fabiola Campillai was blinded when she was shot in the face with a tear gas canister by...